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Good to see you're making progress and that's good to know regarding the cam sensor gap; I'm running the same setup. What are you running for cop setup and did you have to fab the spacer? Keep pushing!

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The COP spacer is the one from RacerX. That part is ok, no problems. I had a lot of fiddling with the crank setup though. Had to get different bolts for the bracket and use washers to space it further, the wheel didn't fit nicely on the GT4 crank pulley, and also the 60T wheel comes extremely close to the chassis.

But...it fired up yesterday...more to come.

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The COP spacer is the one from RacerX. That part is ok, no problems. I had a lot of fiddling with the crank setup though. Had to get different bolts for the bracket and use washers to space it further, the wheel didn't fit nicely on the GT4 crank pulley, and also the 60T wheel comes extremely close to the chassis.

But...it fired up yesterday...more to come.

I really wanted to go with the late gen 5s crank trigger setup, but wasn't sure it would work with the moroso pan. So yeah, in the same boat as you with that too. Fired up? That's what up!

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I like the 5s setup too. I have a spare sensor and pulley /trigger wheel too, but didn't think of it until I was dealing with the racerx setup. My gut says it would probably work with the moroso pan and I could probably take a peek once the car is back. Right now it is at the shop getting prepped for tune.

And heck ya!! I am really excited. It promptly spat a coolant leak out of a weld on the coolant neck (hard to weld that metal, also I had it coated so that was a bit of a headache for the welder). So I've pulled that off to be patched up. After that we'll get it up to temp, dump the oil, and go through the pre dyno inspection.

For startup I'm using Joe Gibbs break-in oil. I'll use it for first start, then dump it, put in fresh, tune to wastegate pressure, dump it again and then put in Motul 300V for the higher power tune.

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So here's the latest. Coolant neck all welded up and that one solved. We got the cold start set up and it fired to life. Teaser vids in the next post. Use speakers or headphones to try to get a sense for the sound.

Have to chase down a couple things, my rad fan wasn't turning on so I'll check that out tomorrow - either a bad relay or something with the wiring, as the relay does click to engage. Also, watching the fuel pressure data live showed it was quite unstable, especially at lower pressures. Decided to change the setup slightly as I don't think the Aeromotives are the best really. Mine also had a vac leak out of the top set screw which I hear is very common. Going to pull out the Aeromotive FPR, and install a Radium unit along with an inline fuel pressure damper. I'll get that in tomorrow as well.

If all goes well, we'll be tuning next week.

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That's interesting about the aeromotive fpr. I've used them exclusively over the many years and have never had an issue with them, but have also never seen a real-time view of the fp data. Very curious how your changes will look in the real-time view. Car's sounding good!

Btw.. More pics of the escort in the background please.. :-)

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lol, everyone wants to see that one. Funny cars those ones. I should be back tomorrow and will take some. Super rare and valuable these days though.

Rad fan fixed, it was the relay, at least in current conditions the single SPAL had no troubles cooling the engine down. Got the first oil change done and fixed a leak off of my oil temp sensor setup. Also swapped in a spare alternator, but didn't solve my issue but it is almost 100% the wiring at the fuse box. Should have tested first, but I've had alternator issues in the past so I thought that might be an easy fix.

Anyone done a custom fuse box? I think that may be a winter project. I'm dealing with mine and it's a bit messy. And now having a few extra relays like the rad fan, starter, with fuses, might be nice to get one integrated. Haltech has one but I don't know if it can also support a big alternator relay.

Anyway, will go back tomorrow, deal with the alternator and try to get the new FPR and dampener mounted. A bit tricky without my own garage to work out of (making new lines possibly, brackets etc). Oh well last little things. Pushing to get it tuned before snow! And it is really threatening as we've had some already.

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